The latest draft text, released early on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates, did not include a commitment to phase out or phase down fossil fuels, as many countries, civil society groups and scientists have urged. Instead, it called on countries to contribute to global efforts to transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.
The new proposal said countries recognised the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5C pathways. It called for a tripling of global renewable energy capacity by 2030 and repeated previously agreed language that they would accelerate efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power. It also called for the development of zero- and low-emission technologies including renewables, nuclear, abatement and removal technologies such as carbon capture and utilisation and storage, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors, and low-carbon hydrogen production.
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